Bacterial defense islands limit viral attack

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Rapid evolutionary turnover of mobile genetic elements drives bacterial resistance to phages

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Trading-off and trading-up in the world of bacteria–phage evolution

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Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes

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Conquering CRISPR: how phages overcome bacterial adaptive immunity

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The pan-immune system of bacteria: antiviral defence as a community resource

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Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome

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CRISPR-Cas-Mediated Phage Resistance Enhances Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transduction

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BREX system of Escherichia coli distinguishes self from non-self by methylation of a specific DNA site

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Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation

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BREX is a novel phage resistance system widespread in microbial genomes

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Acquisition and Evolution of SXT-R391 Integrative Conjugative Elements in the Seventh-Pandemic Vibrio cholerae Lineage

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Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

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